Ping Crisis

Kevin Burton suggested that I fix my weblogs.com ping graph so that it was actually readable. Ping servers have been a key feature of the blogosphere, but there is something fundamentally worrying about them. As comprehensive coverage is a key battleground for blog search engines and portals, how can the currently free and (almost) open services offered by weblogs.com, blo.gs, etc. resist greater and greater claims on their value? Secondly, as this graph of weblogs.com suggests, as the number of pings grows, how can underfunded services like weblogs.com be considered reliable?

Comments

[Wes Felter]

What is the y axis on your graph? Pings per fortnight? Pings per millisecond?

[Matthew Hurst]

Pings per day.